 | William Coxe - 1819 - 734 pages
...cause, intended to prove." doors, where there is nothing done, and is a chaos that turns one's brains but to think of it ; and it will cost an immense sum...causeway, and that ridiculous bridge, in which I counted 33 rooms. Four houses are to be at each corner of the bridge ; but that which makes it so much prettier... | |
 | William Coxe - Great Britain - 1820 - 486 pages
...shell ; besides all without doors, where there is nothing done, and is a chaos that turns one's brains but to think of it ; and it will cost an immense sum...^causeway, and that ridiculous bridge, in which I counted 33 rooms. Four houses are to be at each corner of the bridge ; but that which makes it so much prettier... | |
 | William Coxe - Great Britain - 1848 - 504 pages
...shell; besides all without doors, where there is nothing done, and is a chaos that turns one's brains but to think of it; and it will cost an immense sum...causeway, and that ridiculous bridge, in which I counted 33 rooms. Four houses are to be at each corner of the bridge ; but that which makes it so much prettier... | |
 | William Coxe - Great Britain - 1873 - 520 pages
...shell ; besides all without doors, where there is nothing done, and is a chaos that turns one's brains but to think of it ; and it will cost an immense sum...causeway, and that ridiculous bridge, in which I counted 33 rooms. Four houses are to be at each corner of the bridge ; but that which makes it so much prettier... | |
 | Edward Marshall - Woodstock (England) - 1874 - 148 pages
...construction, and it is curious to observe the points which she selected as most worthy of admiration : — " Four houses are to be at each corner of the bridge...much prettier than London bridge is, that you may set in six rooms and look out at window into the high road, while the coaches are driving over your... | |
 | Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society - Warwickshire (England) - 1886 - 388 pages
...bridges have caused so many epigrams. The Duchess called it " that ridiculous bridge," and says, " what makes it so much prettier than London Bridge is that you may set in six rooms and lookout at window into the high arch while the coaches are driving over your head."... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1901 - 358 pages
...shell; " besides all without doors, where there is nothing done, and is a chaos that turns one's brains but to think of it ; and it will cost an immense sum...much prettier than London bridge is, that you may set in six rooms and look out at window into the high arch, while the coaches are driving over your... | |
 | Bonamy Dobrée - Blenheim Palace (Blenheim, Oxfordshire). - 1925 - 400 pages
...stopped . . ." Here she indulged in a description of the ' chaos ' to be seen at Blenheim ; and then : " It will cost an immense sum to complete the causeway, and that ridiculous bridge, in which I counted 33 rooms. Four houses are to be at each corner of the bridge ; but that which makes it so much prettier... | |
 | Paul-Gabriel Boucé - English literature - 1998 - 232 pages
...pont : "that which 22 - Blenheitn Palacc 120. 23 - Blenheitn Palace 132. 24 - Blenheim Palace 135. makes it so much prettier than London Bridge is that you may sit in six rooms and look oul at a window into the high arch. while the coachés are driving over your héad."26 C'est donc en... | |
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... it will cost an immense sum to complete the causeway, and that ridiculous bridge, in which I counted 33 rooms. Four houses are to be at each corner of the bridge ; but that which makes it so much prettier than London bridge is, that you may sit in... 